July 7, Part 2: Planning your Podcast and Getting to Know GarageBand

I. Review ideas for podcasts

II. Script or storyboard the ideas for your podcast

Example of storyboarding rubric and template



III. Using GarageBand

a. Preparing our assets (copying over some photos and other music), and some links about copyright

A good starting point for finding images: http://images.google.com/
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture is another good site for high quality pictures
A good link for music you can use in your podcasts: http://freeplaymusic.com/
Copyright links: http://www.halldavidson.net/downloads.html#anchor923173)

b. Navigating and Recording in GarageBand. Use this as our guide: Podcast tutorial handout from http://w200.spitzertech.com/handouts.htm

c. Elements of the GarageBand Window or Workspace

d. Setting up our environment for recording

e. Doing some basic editing

f. Activity - work with a partner and record a brief conversation (less than a minute) between the two of discussing what you hope to do with podcasting.


Another good tutorial (gets more into enhanced podcasts)

http://cet.emory.edu/pdf/Garageband_EnhancedPodcasts.pdf

Apple's Support Site for GarageBand
http://www.apple.com/support/garageband/

Apple's GarageBand '08 Video Tutorials
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/music/garageband08.html